The Boeing EC-135N Apollo/Range Instrumentation Aircraft (A/RIA) with its distinctive "droop snoot" radome housing a large parabolic antenna. The aircraft was intended as a mobile tracking and telemetry platform to support the Apollo space program.
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Rangi (May 26, 2020)
didn't they nick name that aircraft the Jimmy Durante
Edit, I guess not droop snoot or snoopy nose is the only thing I can find for a nick name of it
Last edited by Frank S; May 25, 2020 at 10:28 PM.
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